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The Art of the Deal (if the deal was a breakfast taco)

if there is any food more ubiquitous than BBQ in this part of the world,it would have to be the breakfast taco. You can get them in almost any gas station (some make them fresh to order for you, others have them pre-made in a warmer). There are tons of food trailers that do them and every restaurant that does breakfast has some form of the humble BT on the menu. We probably make them at home 2-3 times a week and every weekend for sure. Figured I would share how we do it for those who don't think it's weird to eat tacos for breakfast:

there are so many variations but when we make them at home, we usuallly go with Bacon, Egg, Potato, and Cheese. This is pretty standard but you can make them with anything. It's not uncommon to find sausage, fajita meat, refried beans, avocado, veggies, chorizo, and just about anything else you can think of. All are fantastic in my book.

The cook:

start with bacon (cuz, bacon). Starting with bacon is critical as you will see in step 2. You can't cook potatoes in bacon fat if you don't have any bacon fat to cook them in)

The the potato- you can do any style here. Hash browns, cut up fries, chunks, whatever you want. We use Ore-Ida Tots smashed in to hash browns (this is magic). Nuke until soft then smash and cook in the bacon fat.

Once the tots are browned up, add the bacon back in then add scrambled eggs and cheese if you are into that. Gently Mix together until cheese is melted.

We do flour tortillas for the most part but you can do corn or whatever you like. We are very lucky that our HEB makes fresh tortillas all day every day and we can pick them up warm. I despise store bought tortillas but they are common here at the places who make commodity tacos. Sometimes you gotta take one for the cause. Even some gas stations make tortillas fresh to order around here. That makes me happy.

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Looks great, my kind of portions.This is probably the only application, at mi casa, where bacon takes a backseat to supermercado chorizo.Chorizo, ernyin, egg, tater, and cheese are breakfast magic. Flour tortilla, a must. El Popocatepetl tortillas in the supermercado, are a solid option.

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That looks fantastic. Would love to find fresh tortillas up here because it makes a world of difference.

These are actually really good. You can order from HEB.com but I'm sure Amazon has them as well. They are premade but uncooked tortillas. Throw them in a hot skillet and you have fresh tortillas in under a minute. This is what we used to do before we could drive 2 min and get fresh. We also have a Mexican place in our neighborhood (my youngest son works there now) that makes fresh to order. We can get a dozen from them for like $3. We always grab some to go when we eat there.

I love this post, and any post that makes my mouth water right after I have stuffed myself.

Bacon grease fried tater tots are genius. I am more of a hand-raised-and-grated hash browns guy, but I know how good your way tastes.

For those of you without regular access to tacos, breakfast or otherwise, you have to give this a shot. They will change your life for the better, except for your cholesterol.

Advice for the nubes - if you buy tortillas, flour are easier to handle. Heat em up in a dry, but shiney w oil CI. Microwaves are a tool of the devil, and only suitable for softening ice cream.

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The Cen-Tex Smoker said:If you like chorizo, use it in a BT. You will not be sorry. Chorizo and eggs are magic together.

Absofrigginlutely. By itself, the grease from chorizo sneaks out of the back of the taco, and runs up your arm, bombing every piece of fabric with red wonderfulness in its way.

When scrambled with eggs, all that grease just "disappears".

Joule SVGE induction stoveGasser by the community poolScale (which one of my friends refuses to use)Friends with BGEs and myriad other fired devicesCharcuterie and sourdough enthusiastProsciuttos in an undisclosed location

We do the same often, but a few small differences. Fry some bacon, then I cube up some potatoes and fry em in the bacon fat. I usually don't cut up the bacon and everyone in the house prefers fried eggs (over medium and over easy). We kind smash the egg and yolk with a fork in the tortilla. I just use a strip of bacon and the girls tear it. Lol

For the tortillas, I usually use Tortilla Land refrigerated raw or HEB flour/corn tortillas.